‘Imagine, if everyone had a sex auntie’: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on tradition as a basis for pleasure

2026-03-11 - 13:13

The author tells how chronicling the sex lives of African women led her to many examples of openness around the body grounded in love and care Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I first met Nana five years ago. The Ghanaian writer had just published The Sex Lives of African Women, a book I still think about often for how surprising and eye-opening its accounts of contemporary, quietly radical sexual practices in parts of the continent are. She is back with Seeking Sexual Freedom: African Rites, Rituals and Sankofa in the Bedroom. When I spoke to her, I found a writer in transition who is still as surprising. Continue reading...